[organisms] see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
   Pisces
     Class Osteichthyes Huxley, 1880 - bony fishes and tetrapods see Clade Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 [Moore & Near 2020]
       Order Stephanoberyciformes Berg, 1937 - pricklefishes see Suborder Stephanoberycoidei
         Family Melamphaidae Gill, 1893 - bigscales
           Genus Melamphaes Günther, 1864
             1 Melamphaes longivelis Parr, 1933
             2 Melamphaes microps (Günther, 1878)
             3 Melamphaes simus Ebeling, 1962
             4 Melamphaes suborbitalis (Gill, 1883)
             5 Melamphaes typhlops (Lowe, 1843)